(A)
Except as
otherwise provided in this division or by division rule, licensed commercial
bird shooting preserves may be established in any county of the state, but no
such preserve shall be less than eighty acres or more than six hundred forty
acres in area. A commercial bird shooting preserve shall be in one continuous
block of land, except that the block of land may be intersected by highways or
roads. No commercial bird shooting preserve shall be located within fifteen
hundred feet of any other such preserve.

A licensed commercial
bird shooting preserve operated by a municipal corporation on lands located
within its corporate limits is not subject to this division.

(B)
The
boundaries of each licensed commercial bird shooting preserve shall be clearly
defined by posting, at intervals of not more than two hundred feet, with signs
prescribed by the division of wildlife.

(C)
Mallard or black ducks and other game birds upon which there is an open season
in this state, which the chief of the division may approve for such use, and
that have been legally acquired or propagated under the authority of a
propagating license issued under section
1533.71 of the Revised Code and
marked and banded as provided in division (D) of this section may be released
and harvested by shooting within the confines of any licensed commercial bird
shooting preserve between sunrise and sunset, without regard to sex, daily bag
limit, or open season, by licensed hunters authorized by the holder of the
commercial bird shooting preserve license to hunt on those lands.

(D)
All
game birds released on a licensed commercial bird shooting preserve shall first
be banded with a leg band that shall bear upon it a symbol identifying the
commercial bird shooting preserve. No game birds shall be possessed or
transported outside the licensed area unless each such bird is tagged with a
suitable tag or seal supplied by the division.

(E)
The
holder of a commercial bird shooting preserve license shall raise, or purchase,
and release on the licensed commercial bird shooting preserve at least five
hundred pheasants annually. With the approval of the chief, the license holder
may raise, or purchase, and release, in lieu of pheasants, a like number of
other game birds. No person shall fail to release the required number of game
birds on a licensed commercial bird shooting preserve as required by this
division.

(F)
The holder
of a commercial bird shooting preserve license is not liable for any damage to
or destruction of growing crops on land adjacent to the preserve caused by game
birds released on the preserve.

(G)
No
holder of a commercial bird shooting preserve license shall violate this
chapter or Chapter 1531. of the Revised Code or any division rule.

(H)
A person may
hunt game birds, other than wild turkeys, in a licensed commercial bird
shooting preserve without obtaining a hunting license otherwise required by
section 1533.10 of the Revised
Code.